I discovered a few years ago that I was most productive when listening to music. This was a time when i was still studying math and science based subjects in high school. My teachers always said that it wan’t a good idea to work and prepare for exams and tests this way because I wouldn’t be able to work as efficiently during them. This was a half truth on their part in my opinion. At the back end of my year twelve studies I decided that science wasn’t for me and I want to focus on film, as it is my primary passion. Over the years I realised that listening to music wasn’t focusing my attention, but opening me up creatively. Sort acting as a stimulant for creation. Sound is ultimately the most important part of film. The cinematography can be bad, yet not ruin a film. But if the sound design and mix of a film is bad it will ruin it. With this project I am drawing heavily from the music scenes I listen to.  Music is an auditory experience, but it expands out so vastly from there it would be negligible to not attribute visual styles to it. While making the videos I have been listening to various styles of music that interest me including hip hop, industrial, punk, grunge, and experimental.

I am going to base my focus specifically on Punk as an influence. Most of the music I listen to can be attributed to various sub-genres of punk, or punk inspired at least.  Even a hip hop band i listen to can be considered as a modern evolutionary ancestor of punk. Punk is a very anti-establishment genre at its’ roots, which can be comparable to my project. As I am try to create something that goes against the idea of ‘aspiring perfection’ in the creation of film. I am intentionally going against the norm to explore what can be done with recycled footage. Punk is also a style used to critique culture, which i think I can incorporate into my work. A band that does heavily Influence me is Death Grips (probably because they’re my favourite band). They’re pretty hard to define genre wise because their work varies so heavily from album to album. They’re punk rock and industrial hip hop. The music videos they create also employ similar techniques to the ones I employ, though they film all of the content in use. Their sound and visual style is almost describable as a state of entropic flux, forever coasting on the line of order and chaos.